[marcosdumay]

I thought that too. From Wikipedia:

> in April 2020 Boeing terminated the joint venture deal due to impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on aviation and market uncertainty. Embraer alleges that the financial impact of the Boeing 737 MAX groundings contributed to the demise of the deal

So, the deal was broken before both governments had time to decide if they allowed it.

(I do remember some of Embraer clients canceling orders in 2020. AFAIK, they are still bottlenecked by their manufacturing capacity.)

[stjohnswarts]

Didn't it look like Brazilian government was almost 100% gonna have it called off because of the "hit" to national reputation? (losing one of their largest and most internationally famous powerhouses)

[marcosdumay]

It didn't look that way to me. But then, I'm not good at guessing this.